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1 Kings 16:26

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For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

KJV

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

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This verse in 1 Kings 16

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

acted more wickedly than all who were before him

on 1 Kings 16:25-27

Omri “acted more wickedly than all who were before him”, and the chapter raises that measure twice more for Ahab, at verses 30 and 33. Micah 6:16 later rebukes Israel for keeping “the statutes of Omri”. The chronicle formula closes his reign as it closed every king before him.

This site's exposition

walked in all the ways of Jeroboam

Omri founded a new dynasty and a new capital, and the worship of the calves of Jeroboam went on unchanged. The worthless idols of verse 13 stand in his record as well. A change of capital left the calves in place.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

For he walked in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin,.... Worshipping the calves; to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities; these, and whatsoever idols else were worshipped by him, see 1Ki 16:13.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But Omri wrought evil--The character of Omri's reign and his death are described in the stereotyped form used towards all the successors of Jeroboam in respect both to policy as well as time.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֗לֶךְand he walked

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • בְּכָל־in all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • דֶּ֙רֶךְ֙[the] way of

    derekhH1870 →707 times

  • יָרָבְעָ֣םJeroboam

    yaraveamH3379 →104 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • נְבָ֔טNebat

    nevatH5028 →25 times

  • וּבְחַטָּאת֔וֹand in sin his

    uvechatotavH2403 →295 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הֶחֱטִ֖יאhe caused to sin

    hecheti'H2398 →238 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לְהַכְעִ֗יסto provoke to anger

    lehakhisH3707 →54 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֥י[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • בְּהַבְלֵיהֶֽם׃with vanities their

    behavleihemH1892 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.13 works1 Kings 16:19because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.5 works1 Kings 16:13This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.3 worksPsalms 31:6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.2 worksRomans 1:21–23For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.2 worksJeremiah 10:3For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Kings 13:33–34Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.2 worksJeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!2 works1 Kings 16:7Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.2 worksJeremiah 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.2 works1 Kings 12:26–33Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.2 works1 Kings 16:2“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.2 worksJeremiah 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.2 worksJeremiah 8:19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”2 worksActs 14:15“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.2 worksJeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.2 works1 Kings 21:22I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’2 works2 Kings 13:6Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 10:3

    For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 10:8

      But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 44:9–20

      All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

    • 1 Peter 1:18

      For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

    • Leviticus 18:30

      You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”

    • Romans 1:21

      For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

  • Through

    Psalms 31:6

    I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 10:15

      They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jonah 2:8

      Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

    • Psalms 26:5

      I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

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About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 16 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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